2004:”Women in Revolutionary Struggle: Sign Memory Word”
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Topics:
“They Bargain with Our Lives: Testimonial Texts and Gendered Experiences”
Alicia Partnoy
Loyola Marymount University, California
Emma Goldman: Revolution, Women and War of Words
Candace Falk
University of California, Berkeley
“Amazwi Abesifazane: Indigenous Women and the Traumas of Apartheid”
Carol Becker
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Bearing Witness, Fighting On”:a roundtable discussion
with colloquium participants, moderated by Joanna Bartow, Associate Professor of Spanish
2003:”Doing and Undoing Women Gender Construction in Global Mediascapes”
Topics:
Desi Dykes and Divas: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema
Gayatri Gopinath
University of California, Davis
“Chicks Who Kick Butt: The New World of the Action Heroine”
Sherrie A. Inness
Miami University
Performance: “Generic Latina”
Teatro Luna
Chicago’s first all Latina/Hispana theatre ensemble
Save Martha Stewart-or not-and Other Female Offenders
Judy Yourman
Independent Visual Artist
“Mediated Bodies: A roundtable discussion”
with colloquium participants moderated by Laraine Glidden, professor of Psychology
2002:”Hardware, Software, Wetware, and Women: A Colloquium on Women and Technology”
Topics:
Medicine, Technology, and the Androcentric Model of Sexuality
Rachel P. Maines
Cornell University
Cyberfeminism and Performing Reproduction
Faith Wilding
Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University
“The ‘Low Side’ of ‘High Tech’: Gender, Race, and Class Inequality in Silicon Valley”
Karen J. Hossfeld
San Francisco State University
A New Bill of Rights: Right Place, Right Time, Right Qualifications, Right Enthusiasm
Marta Bohn-Meyer
NASA, Dryden Flight Research Center
Take Back the Byte: A panel discussion
with all four speakers
subRosa Art Collective
with Steffi Domike, Christina Hung
Laleh Mehran, Faith Wiliding, and Hyla Willis
Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century: an interactive performance-workshop
2001:”Revaluing the Family New Histories, New Visions”
Topics:
Family Values and the Body Politic
Linda Kauffman
University of Maryland, College Park
Mama’s Baby, Papa’s? Maybe: The Trend Towards Matrifocal Families
Iris Ford
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Dowry Murder?: Reinvestigating a Cultural Whodunit
Veena Oldenburg
City University of New York Graduate Center and Baruch College
The Family and Its Queer Others
Roddey Reid
University of California, San Diego
Extending Family: A panel discussion
with colloquium participants
2000:”Women of Science/Science of Women”
Topics:
Rare Ecstasy: Embodiment and Inquiry in the Work of Barbara McClintock
Sharon Wyrrick
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
The Social Organization of Bonobos
Amy Parish
Rachel Carson: Making Science Public
Linda Lear
Scientific Culture and Scientific Knowledge: A Gendered Perspective?
Margaret Palmer
Roundtable Discussion
with colloquium participants led by SMCM faculty